 | 1875 - 738 sider
...anything he had ever heard of in breach of faith and bloody inhumanity, and that the cruelties exercised for five days after the town was taken would make...inhumanity as are to be found in the ' Book of Martyrs.' " cited to Lenthall, "to say how it came to pass that this great work " — (" this great mercy, this... | |
 | James Wills - 1876 - 752 sider
...Cromwell exceeded himself, and anything he had ever heard of, in breach of faith and bloody inhumanity; the cruelties exercised there for five days after...book of Martyrs, or in the relation of Amboyna."* Nothing can justify the deed here related, but some reasonable deductions may be made on the consideration... | |
 | William Edward Hartpole Lecky - 1878 - 672 sider
...CAPTUBE OF DROGHEDA. 171 their power, Cromwell gave orders that no quarter should be given.i Ormond wrote that ' the cruelties exercised there for five days...Book of Martyrs," or in the relation of Amboyna.' 2 This description comes from an enemy, and, though it has never been refuted, it may perhaps be exaggerated.... | |
 | William Edward Hartpole Lecky - 1878 - 784 sider
...and the place was in their power, Cromwell gave orders that no quarter should be given.1 Ormond wrote that ' the cruelties exercised there for five days...Book of Martyrs," or in the relation of Amboyna.' J This description comes from an enemy, and, though it has never been refuted, it may perhaps be exaggerated.... | |
 | William Edward Hartpole Lecky - 1878 - 734 sider
...and the place was in their power, Cromwell gave orders that no quarter should be given.1 Ormond wrote that ' the cruelties exercised there for five days...Book of Martyrs," or in the relation of Amboyna.' 1 This description comes from an enemy, and, though it has never been refuted, 1 Carte. i [bid. it... | |
 | William Edward H. Lecky - 1879 - 668 sider
...and the place was in their power, Cromwell gave orders that no quarter should be given.1 Ormond wrote that ' the cruelties exercised there for five days...found in the "Book of Martyrs," or in the relation of Amboyna.'2 This description comes from an enemy, and, though it has never been refuted, it may perhaps... | |
 | Sir John Thomas Gilbert - 1880 - 352 sider
...indeed, all the officers, except some few of least consideration, that escaped by miracle. The eruelty exercised there for five days, after the town was...found in the Book of Martyrs, or in the Relation of Amboyna."2 The author of the *' Aphorismical Discovery" mentions Cromwell's army at Drogheda as numbering... | |
 | Denis Murphy - 1883 - 538 sider
...Cromwell exceeded himself and any thing he had ever heard of in breach of faith and bloody inhumanity ; and that the cruelties exercised there for five days...several pictures of inhumanity as are to be found in The BooR Martyrs or in The Relation of Amboyna.'3 Ludlow calls it an ' extraordinary severity.'4 Of the... | |
 | Denis Murphy - 1885 - 548 sider
...Cromwell exceeded himself and any thing he had ever heard of in breach of faith and bloody inhumanity ; and that the cruelties exercised there for five days...found in The Book of Martyrs or in The Relation of Amboi/na.'8 Ludlow calls it an ' extraordinary severity.'4 Of the inhabitants only thirty survived,... | |
 | William Anderson O'Conor - 1887 - 204 sider
...of Letters," vol. ii., p. 402.) "The cruelty exercised there for five days after the town (Drogheda) was taken, would make as many several pictures of...Book of Martyrs,' or in the relation of Amboyna." (Extract from letter of the Marquis of Ormonde to Lord Byron, dated Kilkenny, 29th Sept., 1649. Carte's... | |
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that on this occasion Cromwell exceeded himself and. any thing he had ever heard of, in breach of faith and bloody inhumanity ; and that the cruelties exercised there, for five days after the town was taken, would make as many several pictures of inhumanity,... 
